Privacy

Privacy Policy

National Football Foundation ("NFF," “Us,” or “We”) is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of the www.footballfoundation.org web site (the “Site”). This privacy policy (the “Policy”) discloses NFF’s information privacy practices for the Site and is intended to inform registered users and other visitors to the Site of the data collection and use practices of the Site.

Amendments to this Policy will be posted on the Site and will be effective when posted. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any amendment will constitute your acceptance of that amendment, except if your personally identifiable information will be used in a materially different manner. See the Notification of Changes section below for further information.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, you should contact NFF by e-mail at news@footballfoundation.org.

Registered Users.

Registration is not mandatory to access the public areas of the Site. Registration is, however, required for access to certain areas of the Site and the products and services provided through those areas of the Site. The areas of the Site requiring registration are noted on the Site.

Users registering to receive an account on the Site will be provided with or will choose a username and password for purposes of accessing their account and the portions of the Site available to account holders. When accessing the portions of the Site available to account holders, users may be required to provide their username and password.

NFF is not responsible for any loss or misuse of your username and password. Always remember that in order to protect your privacy you should not share your username or password with others.

Personally Identifiable Information.

We only collect and share personally identifiable information regarding users of the Site as described in this Policy. Except as noted in this Policy, personally identifiable information collected on the Site is NOT shared with third parties without your consent.

We may automatically collect personally identifiable information from you when you access the Site. We may also collect personally identifiable information from you through a number of voluntary sources on the Site, such as responses, registrations, reviews, comments, emails, postings, messages or other electronic submissions and communications sent by you to NFF or the Site. The personally identifiable information we may collect from you will include, by way of example:

·User-specific and aggregate information on areas of the Site accessed;

·Username and password information for the Site; and

·Other information volunteered by You, such as information provided through responses, registrations, reviews, comments, emails, postings, messages or other electronic submissions and communications sent by you to NFF or the Site.

You should not provide NFF with any personally identifiable information (or submit or post any personally identifiable information to the Site) unless you would like that information to be used by NFF in accordance with this Policy. Likewise, you should not submit or post any personally identifiable information to the Site unless you want that information to be accessible by other users of the Site, as information posted on a Site may be made available to other users of the Site.

The personally identifiable information that NFF collects from users of the Site (both registered and unregistered) may be used for a variety of purposes, for example to provide the services and products offered through the Site to users of the Site, to customize advertising and other content displayed on the Site and/or the layout of the Site for each individual user of the Site, to notify users of the Site about updates to and activities on the Site and about goods and services that we feel may be of interest to you, to improve the content of the Site, to analyze data and patterns regarding usage of the Site, to contact users of the Site for marketing purposes, and to contact users of the Site for information verification purposes.

We may share certain personally identifiable information with third party advertisement serving companies to better target the advertising and other content displayed on the Site and provide pertinent offers we think may be of interest to our users. In addition, third party advertisers may receive certain personally identifiable information about you if you click on advertisements displayed on the Site (and clicking on any advertisement displayed on the Site will be considered your consent to “opt in” for this transfer).

Personal Profiles.

We may also provide you with the ability to create a personal profile on a Site containing personally identifiable information provided by You and to make Your personal profile available to other users of the Site. You may adjust the scope and nature of the information You make available to other users of the Site through Your personal profile as indicated on the Site. you are responsible for the information INcluded in YOUR PERSONAL PROFILE and shared with other users of the Site. you should not create a personal profile unless you want to share your personally identifiable information with other users of the Site.

Disclosure as Required by Law.

Though we make every reasonable effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personally identifiable information of certain users of any Site when we have a reasonable and good-faith belief that the disclosure is necessary to enforce the Terms of Use for the Site, comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or other legal process, or to otherwise enforce or protect NFF's rights under applicable law, including, without limitation, NFF's intellectual property rights. In this situation we will use reasonable efforts to provide notice of this disclosure to all affected users, to the extent reasonably possible under the circumstances.

Enhancement of Personal Information.

We may combine and enhance our user database information with third party data and information to better target our advertising and provide pertinent offers in which we think our users would be interested. Certain summary demographics are also used in our research product offerings. Individual personally identifiable information is never used in our research product offering and is never tied back to an individual user or resold for any purposes.

Service Announcements.

On occasion it is necessary to send out service related announcements. For instance, if our Site or any of the services offered through the Site are temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. These communications are not promotional in nature. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out section.

Special Offers and Updates.

We may send new registrants of the Site a welcome email to verify password and username. Established members may occasionally also receive information on products, services and special deals, and periodic newsletters. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out section.

Your California Privacy Rights.

California law provides that California residents have a right to request that businesses tell them how their personally identifiable information has been shared with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. However, there is an exception to this requirement for businesses that have adopted and disclosed, in their privacy policy, a policy of not disclosing a person’s personally identifiable information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes if that person has exercised an option to opt-out of the disclosure of their personally identifiable information to third parties for such purposes.

NFF has adopted a policy of allowing you to opt-out of the disclosure of your personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes and thus falls within this exception. Instructions for opting out can be found in the section below entitled “Choice and Opt-Out.”

Choice and Opt-out.

We provide you with a choice whether to receive certain emails.

We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes. If you are a user of the Site and you no longer wish to receive email, mail, or telephone calls from us or have your email address or postal address shared with third parties, you may opt-out of receiving email, mail or telephone calls from us or having your email address or postal address shared with third parties.

All opt-out requests can be made by emailing us at news@footballfoundation.org, or writing us at National Football Foundation, 433 Las Colinas Blvd. East Ste. 1130, Irving, TX 75039.

Children.

The Site is not directed to children under 13 years of age and the Terms of Use for the Site specifically prohibits use of the Site by children under 13 years of age. NFF does not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under 13 years of age.

Customer Service.

We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and with regard to issues relating to their account, we reply via email, in accordance with the users' wishes.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information.

Where possible, our server automatically recognizes each visitor’s Internet Protocol addresses. We also collect information about how visitors use the Site (for example what pages are viewed and products and services are purchased). This information allows us to improve the content of the Site and facilitate market research. Sometimes, we utilize the services of a third party to help us understand this information better, although the information that is disclosed to these entities remains at all times in anonymous and non-personally identifiable form. Other than improving the Site and the experience of visitors to the Site, we make no other use of this information.

Cookies and Web Beacons.

"Cookies" are commonly used pieces of information in the form of small files that are placed on an individual's computer hard drive to enable the individual to more easily communicate and interact with the Site. We may use cookies for various purposes, for example to record session information, such as items that users add to their shopping cart, and to save certain information about users of the Site and others who visit the Site, in order to facilitate and enhance interaction with the Site. NFF does not use cookies to retrieve information from a computer that is unrelated to NFF or the Site.

A cookie does not collect or keep your name or other personally identifying information; however, we may link the information obtained through cookies to other personally identifiable information to give us a better understanding of your preferences, so that we can provide a more meaningful experience to you on our Site.

We may use an outside advertisement serving company to display advertisements on the Site. The advertisement serving company may place and collect cookies when it displays an advertisement on the Site. We do not have access to information that would confirm the use of cookies by the advertisement serving company. We may also use a third party provider to analyze data and patterns regarding usage of the Site and such third party provider may user cookies or web beacons to collect such information.

Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.

Access, Review, Update.

The users of the Site should email us at news@footballfoundation.org to review, delete/deactivate and update the personal information that was previously provided to us.

Other Web Sites; Links.

Certain web sites of NFF’s affiliates, promotional partners, advertisers, sponsors, and other third-party web sites are accessible through the Site. These third party web sites have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. NFF is not responsible for any actions or privacy policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing personally identifiable information through linked web Sites.

Consent to the Use of Third Party Providers.

In addition to the specific third parties noted in this Policy, NFF may also contract with other third parties to provide various services to NFF relating to the Site on an outsourced basis rather than performing the services itself. For example, NFF may contract with an email provider to handle the distribution of email messages to members of the Site. Likewise, NFF may contract with a web site hosting provider to host all or a portion of the Site for NFF. By visiting the Site, all visitors consent to NFF providing both personal and non-personal information received from those visitors to these third party providers for the purpose of enabling the third party provider to provide these outsourced services to NFF. In addition, all visitors consent to the collection, maintenance, and processing of their personal and non-personal information by NFF and these third party providers.

Notification of Changes.

If we decide to change this Policy, we will either notify users by way of an e-mail or post material changes on the Site so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and if we disclose it. Unless we seek and receive your consent, we will use information in accordance with the Policy under which the information was last collected. Users may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by emailing us at news@footballfoundation.org.

Security.

We will use reasonable security measures on the Site to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. While there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet, we will take all reasonable steps to insure the safety of your personal information. For example, our policy is that only those individuals who need your personally identifiable information to perform a specific job are granted access to that personally identifiable information. Likewise, all employees and contractors are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Furthermore, when NFF transfers and receives certain types of sensitive information such as financial or health information, it redirects visitors to a secure server. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

Contact Information.

All inquiries concerning this statement and the Site in general may be sent to news@footballfoundation.org.

Transfer of Information.

If NFF elects, in its reasonable discretion, to transfer ownership or control of the Site to a third party, whether or not in the context of an acquisition of NFF or a merger of NFF with a third party, you consent to the transfer of your personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information by NFF to that third party, provided that all use of your information by that third party remains subject to the terms of this Policy.